Writing Again after a Five-Month Hiatus

Two Novels in Progress and a New ResolveThe coast at Santa Barbara where my novel Requiem Lake begins

After a break of about five months, I’m writing again, trying to pick up where I left off in two different works. The break lasted longer than I thought it would. I assumed I’d restart the process shortly after January 1st, but, as they say, life got in the way. We sold the house we’d been living in for more than 25 years, bought another house, and moved half-way across the country. All of that...